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Jeff Rehberger Jr., a Chicago businessman from Highland, runs Lucky Lincoln Gaming. In the Metro East, the company operates at 10 locations. The three complaints lodged against Rehberger contain a total of 21 counts. -
At last week’s City Council meeting, Belleville alderman voted to double the maximum number of tattoo parlors allowed in the Metro East town. -
“I truly enjoy coming to work every day. As a team, I think we accomplished a lot. It was an honor.” -
According to a new report from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, in all, 43 clerics and religious brothers in the Diocese of Belleville sexually abused children or adults since 1950. -
In all, 43 clerics and religious brothers in the Diocese of Belleville sexually abused children or adults since 1950. That’s the latest finding from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul. -
Gene Triefenbach, a well known activist in small-town St. Clair County, won a $30,000 settlement with the village of New Athens after Triefenbach's Facebook post was removed. -
The most immediate and direct impact on local residents will be a 1% sales-tax reduction in the business district surrounding Eckert's Country Store and Farm just outside of Belleville. -
Some of the Metro East hospital’s clinical staff are opposed to the idea. -
Some Belleville Airbnb owners don’t go through the permitting process — and start earning extra money without obtaining business licenses or paying the city’s 8% hotel-motel tax, some in the city allege. -
Missouri and Illinois, which jointly own the existing bridge, have been planning a replacement for years and hoping that funding would become available. -
The Belleville News-Democrat published its first story on the issue in February 1993. By 2002, the diocese, which covers 28 counties in southern Illinois, had removed 15 priests and one deacon from ministry. -
OtherBiopsies confirmed former Belleville mayor Mark Eckert has cancer. “It came out of the clear blue sky, and I was shocked,” he said.
